Falconer School is a Hertfordshire Secondary Special School for boys providing education for both day and weekly boarding pupils who either have experienced or are experiencing emotional and behavioral difficulties. The school seeks, wherever possible, to provide the full national curriculum to all its pupils.

Officially its categorized as a EBD

Emotional and behavioral disorders

Emotional and behavioral disorders is a broad category which is used commonly in educational settings, to group a range of more specific perceived difficulties of children and adolescents...

 secondary school

Secondary school

Secondary school is a term used to describe an educational institution where the final stage of schooling, known as secondary education and usually compulsory up to a specified age, takes place...

 It caters for up to 75 boys of ages 11 to 16. The School was founded in 1974, in Bushey

Bushey

Bushey is a town in the Hertsmere borough of Hertfordshire in the East of England. Bushey Heath is situated to the south east of Bushey on the boundary with the London Borough of Harrow.-History:...

, Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire

Hertfordshire is a ceremonial and non-metropolitan county in the East region of England. The county town is Hertford.The county is one of the Home Counties and lies inland, bordered by Greater London , Buckinghamshire , Bedfordshire , Cambridgeshire and...

. It is located next to Bushey Academy (known as Bushey Hall School until September 2009). The school has a virtual learning environment

Virtual learning environment

Defined largely by usage, the term virtual learning environment has most, if not all, of the following salient properties:* It is Web-based* It uses Web 2.0 tools for rich 2-way interaction* It includes a content management system...

, which allows children to do homework along with many other activities. It is a boys-only school.

Aim

Falconer school aims to help pupils who, for whatever reason, have been unable to succeed in their previous educational setting. The school seeks to counter the history of failure which its pupils have experienced by enabling them to develop their potential to its full and to be able to enjoy the process of education. It is the school's goal that every pupil is able to leave school confident in the knowledge that they can play a full and successful part in their families, in continuing education or employment and act as responsible members of their community.

Residential facilities are available within the school for a maximum of twelve pupils. Pupils who are resident arrive in school on Monday mornings and return home at the end of school on Fridays.

VLE

The school's VLE is mainly in use for homework, however there are a range of other activities on the VLE, of which some can be accessed by guests, and others will require the pupil to agree to VLE guidelines and then create an account. Until 2009, the VLE had a chatroom feature where pupils could chat via text through the internet. Currently, there is a "Best Games" section on the VLE where pupils can create games and publish them. The VLE can be found here.

External links

• Falconer School's website
• Falconer School's VLE